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The Belvedere
The Belvedere (After: M.C. Escher) These perspectival flexibilities confirm, Even as they confuse, the view. Their interlinked Impossibilities of structural design Create illusions of reality where none Can be. In which direction is this place aligned?. And is […]
St Anthony
St Anthony (After: SalvadorDali) Such terrible hallucinations came to haunt The holy anchorite, in his hot desert cell, He thought that he was going mad from loneliness. Voluptuous houris danced before his eyes, both day And night, lasciviously luring him to […]
Sausage in a Pot
Sausage in a Pot Sausage in a Pot (for Ana & Léo) I’m a sausage in a pot. A pot that’s getting far too hot!. But if I could escape this spot It would not much improve my plight Because the […]
Sphinx
Sphinx (Adapted from: Œdipus) The happy day Was inauspicious at the start. (Often Good luck comes when we least expect!). So when, One morning, coming close toThebes– a guard Preventing him from going nearer – he Enquired the cause. It seems there was a vile Marauder, […]
Embellishing the Facts
Embellishing the Facts (Xenography) From Hami (China), so newspapers say, A mighty whirlwind – like invisible Great hand! – snatched thirteen children from their school And, with a strength quite irresistible, Transported them […]
Four Point Three Three (or: Manifolds of Experience)
Four Point Three Three (or: Manifolds of Experience) (An exercise, à la John Cage, in the detachment of voice from the auditory manifold of experience). * * * * * * * [1. The reader […]
Skuba
Skuba (For Edmund) The languid level of the lake Began to bubble and to boil As from its depths emerged the shape Of Skuba whose scaled skin, like oil, Gleamed green and gold. Her bright blue eyes, As […]
Zelotypiac
Zelotypiac Just licence me And I’ll licentious be; Then shall we know, Together, how To pleasure mutually. There is no shame, Nor can be any blame, When licenced love Goes on to prove The promise of its claim. When both agree […]
Intuitions
Intuitions By the grey in my thinning hair I have knowledge that I could share With those who desire To learn what the fire Of inspirate wisdom may bare. By the learning lodged in my brain, (From studying matters germane), I hold the hid […]
Dragon
Dragon Snake-neck extended like an armoured lance; Croc-toothed flame-jaws agape; spike-tongue out-thrust; Black smoke-trails from broad nostrils streaming; barb- Tipped, saw-fretted writhe-tail all alash; huge As a whale: a Dragon is watching me […]